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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you.

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Speaker 2: so let's have a little phone in New Year's resolutions.

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Speaker 2: You've got three, and I've got a few as well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I have three, but we're going

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Speaker 2: to have those for you in a minute. But before

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Speaker 2: All right, Senata, So you've got three New Year's resolutions.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go out on a limb and say

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Speaker 2: that of my New Year's resolutions, I'm going to be

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Speaker 2: at thirty three percent of your New Year's resolutions. I

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Speaker 2: do not know what they are, but I'm just going

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Speaker 2: to see if we are aligned on this.

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Speaker 1: So give me your top one for the year.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready, all right, So number one in twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna lose some weight. I like two damn fat uh.

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Speaker 3: You know I weighed in this week at two thirty six.

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Speaker 3: That is two damn fat. You know, when I graduated

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Speaker 3: And my target for twenty twenty six is to drop

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Speaker 3: Ben and I are in a weight loss group. We've

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Speaker 3: and be at two oh six one year from now.

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Speaker 2: Now, now, my question is, hold on, how are you

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Speaker 1: I got to give you a little a little hard

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Speaker 3: Look, look, it's it's kind of all of that. It's

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Speaker 4: The objective, which which I've.

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Speaker 3: That's something I've done at different periods of my life.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm making a commitment to myself also that

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Speaker 1: Dude, I love that. By the way, the Bible one.

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Speaker 2: That's cool because I literally tried a couple different times

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Speaker 2: So yesterday I was like, what is my goal? And

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Speaker 1: So it's never been a thing.

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Speaker 2: But I'm sixty six percent in with you, but I'll

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Speaker 3: Well, look, it's a journey, and I expect that a

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Speaker 3: lot of our listeners are making your own commitments in

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Speaker 2: I want to get into Minnesota, and what happened in

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Speaker 3: You're right, and what we're witnessing in Minnesota is is

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Speaker 6: Give a listen, and I have a message for Ice

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Speaker 3: What a repulsive partisan swine like that is. I'm physically

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Speaker 4: And here he is.

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Speaker 3: You know what, this woman, a thirty seven year old woman,

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to just the rhetoric that is coming

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Speaker 4: Look that that is absolutely right.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for taking questions today.

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Speaker 7: He is there a risk with you describing for as

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Speaker 8: Well, first of all, the Department of Justice is going

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Speaker 8: Nobody debates that you have a woman who aimed her

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Speaker 4: Why don't you vote?

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Speaker 8: Why don't you organize instead? What some of them are doing,

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Speaker 2: It's sad that you have to have that type of clarity,

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Speaker 3: Well and more and more, the left is condoning violence,

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Speaker 3: Look, all of that is prudent it's the advice that

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Speaker 1: It goes back to respect.

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Speaker 2: But the left is now saying if you don't like them,

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Speaker 1: You don't have to respect the law.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, Ben At lunch Thursday, several of

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Speaker 1: I'm at ten and too.

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Speaker 1: Of the right I don't want them not to worry about

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Speaker 1: anything with me.

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Speaker 2: They've had a hard enough day and they've done this,

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Speaker 2: and like you said, they walk up to a traffic stop.

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Speaker 2: They don't know if you just robbed a bank. That's

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Speaker 2: what my dad always told me. They don't know if

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Speaker 2: you just killed your wife. They don't know, if you

444
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Speaker 2: just ran over someone. They don't know if you have

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Speaker 2: drugs in the car. They don't know who you are.

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Speaker 2: So make them comfortable with you. And and I wish

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Speaker 2: we lived in a society where that was like the

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Speaker 2: common denominator.

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Speaker 1: Now unfortunately it's not.

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Speaker 4: And that naturally de escalates.

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Speaker 3: When you do that, you can see law enforcement kind

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Speaker 3: of just you know, take an extra breath and okay,

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Speaker 3: this is this is not going to be confrontational. And

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Speaker 3: and listen, the reason that didn't happen is is this

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Speaker 3: woman didn't want to de escalate. This woman was there

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Speaker 3: to provoke a confrontation with law enforcement. She was there

457
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Speaker 3: because the rhetoric on the left was is stand up

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Speaker 3: and fight ice and and she was there to do

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Speaker 3: that and and and and so it was the opposite

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Speaker 3: of de escalation. She was looking to escalate, and and

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Speaker 3: tragically she escalated too far. And she may look, we

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Speaker 3: may never know her intention. She may have just think

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Speaker 3: thought she was fleeing. Uh, But but the officer. If

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Speaker 3: you drive a vehicle right at somebody, particularly an officer

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Speaker 3: who's already been run over once just a few months

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Speaker 3: ago by another leftist, you are posing a real and

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Speaker 3: present threat. And and and if you pose a real

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Speaker 3: and present threat to law enforcement, that that predictably can

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Speaker 3: result in deadly force as a consequence.

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Speaker 2: By the way side, note just I was talking to

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Speaker 2: something in law enforce and they said, would you please

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Speaker 2: just remind people that we will charge you with major

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Speaker 2: crimes as a deadly weapon if you use your car

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Speaker 2: to hit somebody.

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Speaker 1: We do it every day in America. This isn't some

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Speaker 1: new rule.

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Speaker 2: You use your car as a deadly weapon, you will

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Speaker 2: go to jail for that, whether you're going after law

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Speaker 2: enforcement or an innocent person. It and and I think

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Speaker 2: that's the important point for you to remember. If I

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Speaker 2: was in front of that car, I could ease been

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Speaker 2: run over. You could have anybody. That's why we have

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Speaker 2: laws in the books that say you cannot use your

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Speaker 2: car as a deadly weapon, and if you do, you

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Speaker 2: will be charged with major crimes. It's sad that we

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Speaker 2: even have to have this conversation. But the governor, by

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Speaker 2: the way, center, he's not backing down. He's seeing a

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Speaker 2: political opportunity here, the same disgrace Governor, because of the

489
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Speaker 2: scandal that tappen in Minnesota. He's now out there calling

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Speaker 2: like this in essence of civil war, trying to ratchet

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Speaker 2: things up instead of bringing down the temperature, which is

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Speaker 2: also I think really sick.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, you remember back in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 3: the man in Waukeshaw, Wisconsin who drove his suv into

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Speaker 3: a Christmas parade and murdered multiple people, did so very deliberately,

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Speaker 3: using it as a deadly weapon and killing children, killing

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Speaker 3: the elderly, and it was horrific.

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Speaker 4: And the grotesque irony is that.

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Speaker 3: He had previously used his car as a deadly weapon

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Speaker 3: against if I remember correctly, is his pregnant girlfriend. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And he had been charged with it and then let

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Speaker 3: out a jail on a nominal I think it was

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Speaker 3: a five hundred dollars bond, because you had one of

504
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Speaker 3: those George Soros prosecutors.

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Speaker 4: Who lets people go.

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Speaker 3: And they let him out of jail for attempting to

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Speaker 3: kill someone with a car as a deadly weapon. And

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Speaker 3: he went out to the Christmas Day parade and committed

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Speaker 3: mass murder. A car can be a very deadly weapon.

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Speaker 2: Senator, I want to go back to this the rhetoric here,

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Speaker 2: and we mentioned the governor earlier. The governor Tim Waltz

512
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Speaker 2: is now a disgraced governor. He had to drop out

513
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Speaker 2: of his re election campaign because of the fraud that

514
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Speaker 2: is just continuing to grow in the dollar amount and

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Speaker 2: the different sectors of the government. I'm not sure there's

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Speaker 2: any sector in Minnesota that wasn't involved in fraud and

517
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Speaker 2: corruption at this point. We're seeing it in transportation, child care,

518
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Speaker 2: the list goes on and on. But the governor now

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Speaker 2: seems to think this is like a moment to seize

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Speaker 2: on and he's now wanting to go to war with

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Speaker 2: the federal government.

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Speaker 1: It's very odd.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, the Democrat politicians in Minnesota are in crisis

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Speaker 3: right now because this Somali fraud. It is the worst

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Speaker 3: instance of fraud that has ever been uncovered in American history,

526
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Speaker 3: nine billion dollars in counting massive theft from the taxpayers.

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Speaker 4: It is so bad that Tim Waltz.

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Speaker 3: I mean, remember, like twelve minutes ago the Democrats said

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Speaker 3: he was going to be vice president of the United States,

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Speaker 3: and now he's ended his campaign for re election even

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Speaker 3: as governor, because look, I think he's facing potentially very

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Speaker 3: real criminal liability for the fraud that unfolded under his leadership.

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Speaker 3: And it is and Waltz and the mayor in Minneapolis

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Speaker 3: that they're not the only ones. I think there's an

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Speaker 3: entire array of Democrats who are responsible. And one of

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Speaker 3: the reasons why they are so eager to foment riots.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look that they are rooting for a replay

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Speaker 3: of the Black Lives Matter and the Antifa riots we

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Speaker 3: saw all over the country. They want people go into

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Speaker 3: the streets, they want them looting stores, they want them

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Speaker 3: fire bombing police cars. They are rooting for violence because

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Speaker 3: they want to energize their voters and get everyone not

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Speaker 3: talking about the fraud. Here's Tim Waltz, the governor, and

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Speaker 3: here was his response, calling for all at war.

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Speaker 9: Well, I said this yesterday. We've never been at war

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Speaker 9: with our federal government. I think in this case that

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Speaker 9: the National Guard is their main mission. They have a

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Speaker 9: dual mission.

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Speaker 2: When he said that and it went viral, I'm Mike,

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Speaker 2: let me get this straight. You have a governor who

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Speaker 2: is in a crisis situation. I'm talking about the Christs

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Speaker 2: on the ground whose job is to back law enforcement,

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Speaker 2: and his job is also to ratchet down the rhetoric

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Speaker 2: so we don't have a civil war breakout. And he's like,

555
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Speaker 2: maybe this is an opportunity for a civil war. He's

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Speaker 2: saying that Minnesota is at war with the United States

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Speaker 2: federal government.

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Speaker 1: The governor just said that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and listen, if you're an angry left wing radical,

560
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Speaker 3: you already hate Ice, you already hate Donald Trump, and

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Speaker 3: then you hear the elected Democrat governor say Minnesota is

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Speaker 3: at war with the federal government. That is a call

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Speaker 3: to violence. That is a call in war. People get killed,

564
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Speaker 3: people get injured. That is Democrats very deliberately calling to violence.

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Speaker 3: It is not we disagree over policy with the federal government.

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Speaker 3: It is we are at war. And I think a

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Speaker 3: huge part of this is a cya instinct because the

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Speaker 3: fraud is so bad. And I want you to listen,

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Speaker 3: the House representatives had a hearing on the fraud in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I'm going to be charing a hearing

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Speaker 3: on the same topic in just a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 3: so we'll cover that in verdict when that happens. But

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Speaker 3: I want you to listen to Brandon gil Brandon Gill

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Speaker 3: is a good friend. He is a congressman from Tech

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Speaker 3: says he's cross examining this, this left wing witness from Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: I want you to listen to this exchange. It's really powerful.

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Speaker 10: Thank you for being here. Ask you, does large scale

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Speaker 10: Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker? Certainly stronger, certainly stronger.

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Speaker 10: Do you know what percentage of Somali headed households in

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Speaker 10: Minnesota are on food stamps?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 10: Fifty four percent. Do you know what that number is

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Speaker 10: for Native Minnesota headed households.

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Speaker 5: Well, to be clear, a majority of this.

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Speaker 10: It's seven it's seven percent. There's a big difference between

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Speaker 10: fifty four percent and seven percent?

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Speaker 4: Is there?

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Speaker 7: Not?

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Speaker 4: Use me?

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Speaker 5: So I could I answer the question?

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Speaker 10: Let me let me move on. We've got a lot

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Speaker 10: of questions here. What percentage of Somali headed households in

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Speaker 10: Minnesota are on Medicaid?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: It's seventy three percent. Do you know what that number

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Speaker 10: is for Minnesota native households?

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Speaker 5: Again, you're using the phrase Minnesota native households.

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Speaker 4: The number.

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Speaker 10: If the number is eighteen percent, that's a quite an

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Speaker 10: astounding difference. I think we would. Can I answer the question? Please,

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Speaker 10: let me ask you one more and then we can

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Speaker 10: go onto that. What what percentage of Somali headed households

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Speaker 10: are on welfare in general?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: It's eighty one percent. What about let me just ask you,

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Speaker 10: after ten years of being in the United States, what

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Speaker 10: percentage of Somali immigrant households are on continue to be

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Speaker 10: on welfare?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: The number is seventy eight percent. So even after ten years,

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Speaker 10: seventy eight percent of Somali immigrant households continue to be

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Speaker 10: on welfare. Do you know what that number is for

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Speaker 10: Native Minnesota headed households non Somali immigrant immigrant headed households.

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Speaker 5: If I can just answer the question, you're using the

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Speaker 5: phrase native Minnesotans. The majority of Somali Minnesotans are as

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Speaker 5: Minnesota as any of us. They were born in the

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Speaker 5: United States. It's only eight thousand of the one hundred

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Speaker 5: and eight thousand.

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Speaker 10: In Nevertheless, the welfare usage is astoundingly different. Let me

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Speaker 10: ask you again, does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker?

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Speaker 4: Again?

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Speaker 5: I'd like the opportunity to answer the question here. So again,

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Speaker 5: the majority Somali and Minnesotan's are born in the United States.

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Speaker 5: Is I understand, okay, well.

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Speaker 10: What percentage of working age Somalians who have been in

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Speaker 10: the US for ten years or more? Ten years or more,

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Speaker 10: how many of them speak English very well? I don't

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Speaker 10: know about half. The answer is about half. That seems

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Speaker 10: pretty low, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: I love just the facts there, Senator, like the way

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Speaker 2: that he handled that, the reason why you're good friends with,

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Speaker 2: the reason why we played it, because he's just laying

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Speaker 2: out the reality of the situation on the ground and

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Speaker 2: how we got to a point where virtually every government

635
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Speaker 2: program in Minnesota has been compromised by the Somali community

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Speaker 2: in this way where they could grab money and create

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Speaker 2: fraud with it.

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Speaker 3: But by the way Brandon got elected, he had a

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Speaker 3: rough primary, He had a bunch of primary opponents, He

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Speaker 3: had millions of dollars spent against him.

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Speaker 4: Brandon is a conservative.

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Speaker 3: Actually, his father in law is Danesh Desuzo, who's a

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Speaker 3: good friend, and I endorsed Brandon early, went and campaigned

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Speaker 3: with him, and he overcame a ton of money come

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Speaker 3: against him. And part of what I told the voters

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Speaker 3: of Texas is listen, if y'all elect brand and he's

647
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Speaker 3: going to go and fight for you and make you proud.

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Speaker 4: He's doing that. You know. I want to make a

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Speaker 4: point about the.

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Speaker 3: Back and forth because that that Weasley, Minnesota lefty witness.

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Speaker 3: He kept saying, well, the majority of Somalians are are

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Speaker 3: born in America. Now noted, note what Brandon Gill was asking.

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Speaker 3: Somali immigrant headed households, and the guy says, well, they

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Speaker 3: have a bunch anchor babies.

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Speaker 4: In other words, we bring over Somali immigrants.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have tons of babies here and because of

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Speaker 3: birthright citizenship, which is a really foolish policy. And my

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Speaker 3: hope is that the Supreme Court will side with President

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Speaker 3: Trump and ending it. But the Somali immigrants come here,

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Speaker 3: they have a lot of babies here. That guy's focusing

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Speaker 3: on the babies, and Brandon's saying, all right, how about

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Speaker 3: the person who heads the household and the person who

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Speaker 3: heads the household? Are these Somali immigrants and you've got

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Speaker 3: eighty one percent of them on welfare? And I tell

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Speaker 3: you the staff that was really powerful was ten years

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Speaker 3: later they've been here ten years, it's seventy eight percent

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Speaker 3: still on welfare.

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Speaker 4: This is a scam.

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Speaker 3: The Democrats did it deliberately, and they did it to

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Speaker 3: buy votes. They were importing votes to vote for Democrats.

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Speaker 3: They allowed them to commit fraud to steal nine billion

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Speaker 3: dollars and then to bundle those votes for the Democrats,

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Speaker 3: to bundle cash for the Democrats, and the Democrats covered

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Speaker 3: it up. And it's why Tim Waltzon, Jacob Fray and

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Speaker 3: so many other Democrats are trying to enrage the left

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Speaker 3: about this shooting with Ice because they want to cover

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Speaker 3: up from the incredible theft and fraud they are responsible for.

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